The Analytical Banker

Practical notes on data, analytics, and AI inside corporate banking — for finance leaders who actually have to make this stuff work

Microsoft just put a meter on Copilot. Who in your business is reading it?

Oct 11, 2026

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7 min read

Microsoft just put a meter on Copilot. Who in your business is reading it?

From 1 December, new Copilot Business licences come with pay-as-you-go switched on. Here's the tracker that tells you what your software and AI actually cost, before the reseller invoice does.

Aksel Etingu

55% of small firms just watched a customer go bust. Your ledger saw it coming.

Oct 6, 2026

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7 min read

55% of small firms just watched a customer go bust. Your ledger saw it coming.

Customer failures rarely arrive without warning. The warnings are just split between your own sales ledger and a free public register that nobody in finance checks. Here's how to join them up.

Aksel Etingu